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The Dr. John Delony Show

My Daughter Had a Traumatic Experience at a Sleepover

The Dr. John Delony Show

Ramsey Network

Relationships, Mental Health, Society & Culture, Health & Fitness

4.87.4K Ratings

🗓️ 26 January 2026

⏱️ 57 minutes

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0:00.0

I have an eighth grade daughter, and up until about a year ago, I had never allowed her to go to sleepovers.

0:12.0

I decided to let her go.

0:14.0

During that sleepover, one of the girls with a phone had the app Omagle, and an old perverted man had exposed themselves

0:21.3

to the girl.

0:26.7

What's going on?

0:30.2

This is John with the Dr. John Deloney's show.

0:35.1

Man, I'm glad you're with us.

0:42.0

A lot of hurting people out there and not a lot of people to call and so i'm glad that you've reached out i'm glad you're listening

0:45.2

glad that you're pulling up a seat and we're going to figure out what's the next right move

0:48.5

in your life with your mental and emotional health your relationships your marriage

0:51.9

your kids whatever you got going on.

0:57.8

Let's go out to Bend, Oregon and talk to Jessica. What up, Jessica?

1:01.7

Hello, how are you? I'm good. How are you?

1:07.5

Nervous. Oh, don't be nervous. I'm not very good at this day. You're good to go. What's up?

1:12.5

What's up? So, I have an eighth grade daughter. I also have a fifth daughter. And up until about a year ago, I had never allowed her to go to sleepovers. She'd had

1:18.7

like a handful of, you know, one-on-one sleepovers with some friends that are like family. But outside

1:24.7

that, I didn't allow her to do summer parties. But this year feels like there's one about every month, and I decided to let her go. It was a, you know,

1:33.2

she has a really good friend. She's a good girl. She went, and the next day I could tell something was

1:38.4

off. And she told me that during that sleepover, one of the girls with a phone, um, had the app omegal and an old perverted man had exposed themselves to the girls.

1:50.4

Obviously, I was pretty upset about it, but now I'm in this situation where I don't know if I should stop letting her have them or appreciate that she told me, and I just don't know how to handle it going forward.

2:02.2

They're just constant and I'm the only one that doesn't let my daughter stay or had been.

2:07.5

So just trying to figure out how to navigate this.

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